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As for Burgon, who later in life became Dean of Chichester, he retains a tiny niche in the history of English literature for two immortal lines of poetry he composed in 1845, much quoted and much admired ever since.
A footnote to the verify-your-references anecdote may interest readers, since the two participants in that famously anticlimactic exchange (Martin Joseph Routh, then aged about 92, and John William Burgon, then about 34) are celebrated for other reasons.
Here, first of all, is the full story (accurately quoted, I hope), as recalled by Burgon some 35 years later:
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